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Film Courage: How is the Nutshell Technique different from Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat?
Jill Chamberlain, Script Consultant/Author/Writer: Well I’m not an expert on Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat. I’m familiar with it. I’ve read the book. One of the still I think bestselling books on screenwriting.
As far as his beat sheet approach is that you’re supposed to hit so many pre-prescribed beats that are ostensibly in every Hollywood movie. I don’t have any problem with that.
I have lots of writers who use my method and use Save The Cat, they don’t contradict each other, they’re just different approaches. Save The Cat‘s beat sheet is just linear. We’re going to hit these 15 (I can’t remember if it’s 15 or 22 beats?) that are in every Hollywood story.
Blake Snyder’s method, and a lot of other beat set methods, tend to get people too quickly micromanaging things, micromanaging moments.
My method (The Nutshell Technique) is more about a bird’s eye view. We’re looking back so I’m not looking at every single individual…it doesn’t go into every single beat. What we’re doing is we’re setting up certain things in act one and in…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It’s on the syllabus at film schools all over the world and has been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format.
As a script consultant, Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (Screenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. Complete beginners to Emmy-winning screenwriters and award-winning producers enroll in her classes.
Find out more about her and her script consultancy at jillchamberlain.com.
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